“The Superior Man is aware of Righteousness, the inferior man is aware of advantage.”

— Confucius

The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit. [by 朱冀平]
The Analects, Chapter I, Chapter IV

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君子喻於義，小人喻於利。

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Confucius 269

Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher -551–-479 BC

Gregory Battcock (1937–1980)

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“Man is the only living being who has a developed self-awareness and death-awareness.”

Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900–1975) geneticist and evolutionary biologist

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“A superior man in dealing with the world is not for anything or against anything. He follows righteousness as the standard.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

“We must be aware of the superiority of our civilization”

Silvio Berlusconi (1936) Italian politician

In response to the September 11 attacks of al-Queda, in Berlusconi: "Attacco mirato senza vittime fra i civili", in la Repubblica (26 September 2001) http://www.repubblica.it/online/mondo/italiadue/berlusconi/berlusconi.html
2001
Context: We must be aware of the superiority of our civilization, a system that has guaranteed well-being, respect for human rights and — in contrast with Islamic countries — respect for religious and political rights, a system that has as its value understanding of diversity and tolerance … The West will continue to conquer peoples, even if it means a confrontation with another civilization, Islam, firmly entrenched where it was 1,400 years ago.

“The characteristic of a well-bred man is, to converse with his inferiors without insolence, and with his superiors with respect and with ease.”

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) British statesman and man of letters

17 March 1748
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)

“[S]trong racial pride always entails intense awareness of an inferior other. For the North Koreans, foreigners are inferior — even the friendly ones.”

Brian Reynolds Myers (1963) American professor of international studies

2010s, North Korea's Race Problem (February 2010)

“After an inferior man has been taught a doctrine of superiority he will remain as inferior as he was before his lesson. He will merely assume himself to be superior, and attempt to employ his recently-learned tactics against his own kind, whom he will then consider his inferiors. With each inferior man enjoying what he considers his unique role, the entire bunch will be reduced to a pack of strutting, foppish, self-centered monkeys gamboling about on an island of ignorance. There they will play their games under the supervision of their keeper, who was and will always be a superior man.”

Anton LaVey book The Devil's Notebook

The Devil's Notebook (1992)

“Nature is a part of our humanity, and without some awareness and experience of that divine mystery man ceases to be man.”

Henry Beston book The Outermost House

Source: The Outermost House

“The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.”

Isaac Asimov book Second Foundation

Source: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Second Foundation (1953), Chapter 8 “Seldon’s Plan”

“The corrupt man is nearly always rootless, deeply aware of his rootlessness.”

Pierre Stephen Robert Payne (1911–1983) British lecturer, novelist, historian, poet and biographer

The Corrupt Individual, p. 63
The Corrupt Society - From Ancient Greece To Present-Day America (1975)

“The Superior Man is aware of Righteousness, the inferior man is aware of advantage.”

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